Planning my college magazine

Before making my magazine, Bishbosh, I looked at other college and university magazines to see what worked and what didn't. From these magazines I took note of colours used, language, target audience and images. An analysis I did of an existing college magazine is included in this blog.

In order to find out what would be a good idea to include in the magazine and how to price it, we created a questionnaire for the target audience and randomly selected people to answer. From the results of this questionnaire I found some important points, for example the majority of students would be willing to pay no more than £1 monthly for the magazine, and that they are more interested in sport, music reviews and game reviews being in the magazine. I also found that the majority of students would rather the magazine had a mixed tone of serious and humorous, and that an image of students should be on the front. From this research I decided to include cover lines such as "Sound track to college life" and "College football team set to win league" because I thought students would find this interesting. Before even taking photos for the cover I drew a rough plan of the front cover and contents page to give me a guideline to go by, and although I strayed from this plan it gave me a good idea of what to include.